Canada Quotes

• There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, People, Limits

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• It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

  Emily Carr

  Patriotic, Power, Sublime

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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• The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

  Britney Spears

  Funny, Travel, Sea

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• I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

  George Best

  Soccer, Missing, Ireland And The Irish

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• When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.

  Jane Fonda

  World, Should, Feels

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• I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.

  John Diefenbaker

  Country, Freedom, Believe

  John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

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• You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.

  Stephen Harper

  Ghetto, People, Migrants

  "The Report" Newsmagazine, January 22, 2001.

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• A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

  Pierre Berton

  Making Love, Patriotism And Nationalism, Know How

  Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973

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• Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

  Tommy Douglas

  Inspirational, Humorous, Ontario

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. June 29, 1983.

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• Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

  Robin Williams

  Party, Memorable, Really Great

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't even know what street Canada is on.

  Al Capone

  Humorous, Streets, Knows

  "Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada". Book by Stephen Schneider, chapter Five, p. 206, 2009.

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• Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!

  John A. Macdonald

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• If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

  Margaret Atwood

  United States, Mental Illness, Schizophrenia

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• My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

  Jim Carrey

  Proud, Made, Persons

  "Jim Carrey becomes a U.S. citizen" by Gary Susman, ew.com. October 13, 2004.

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• I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.

  Will Ferguson

  Funny, Humorous, Home

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• Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Lakes, People, Promise

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• Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

  John Ralston Saul

  Lying, Ideas, Intellectual

  "Reflections of a Siamese Twin". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1997.

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• Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.

  Peter Brimelow

  Wise, Clever, Men

  Peter Brimelow (1988). “The patriot game: Canada and the Canadian question revisited”, Key Porter Books, [1988]

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• There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.

  Stephen Harper

  Unique, Thinking, Borders

  Newsmagazine Report, January 07, 2002.

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• Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Humorous, Might

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• Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Important

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.47, Crown Archetype

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• There are also a number of humans living up there (Canada), and in many ways they have a lifestyle quite similar to ours, including such traditional American activities as driving Japanese cars.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Numbers

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.100, Ballantine Books

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• In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

  Mordecai Richler

  Umpires, Giving, Damn

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• I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

  Leonard Cohen

  Travel, Home, Want

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.233, Vintage

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• I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sarcastic, Cold

  1866 A Yankee in Canada.

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